PeretzP/Flickr. The Silk Road, a Web based black market for illegal narcotics, fake documents, hackers-for-hire and other illicit goods, has been shut down by the FBI, and its alleged mastermind ...

Last week, we learned that the Dread Pirate Roberts -- the shadowy figure behind the online drug bazaar Silk Road -- is allegedly a 29-year-old dude living in San Francisco.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump carried through on another campaign promise, issuing a presidential pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground website Silk Road. But why did he do it?

BMR operates pretty much exactly as Silk Road did, ... Here's what it looks like: Screenshot Finally, there's Sheep Marketplace, the newest and smallest of the three. Over at the Silk Road ...

They also lacked spinnerets (used to make silk) and had segmented abdomens. One of the earliest spider-like fossils, also known as a proto-spider, dates back 380 million years and is called ...

While silk was still one of the principal products that traveled the Silk Road, the textile was sent west with pearls and precious stones, spices, ceramics, carpets and more. In addition to this ...

If you ask me, as an archeologist, the foundations of Silk Road can be traced back to the Bronze Age. But the peak of this exchange we date to the medieval period, between the 6th century and the ...

That aside, the house looks much like it did 10 years ago. But for Benthall, a lot has changed. On Nov. 5, 2014, in front of neighbors who had known him as an unassuming techie and Bible reader, he ...